The records of the court tell us
what happened to Evan Owen next. Because he had already been found guilty
of one offence his punishment
was severe.

The
entry reads:"Ordered that the prisoner be transported beyond
the seas to such parts as Her Majesty with the advice of her Privy Council
shall direct for the term of seven years".

This legal language means that the
Queen's advisers would decide where
he went. At this time prisoners were sent to penal colonies in Australia
where they would be forced to work in the fields under guard. It is almost
certain Evan Owen died there. If he survived the seven year sentence he
would have been turned loose with no way of getting back to Wales.